Overview

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Academic contacts

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Requisites

Enrolment rules

Enrolment in the initial teacher education course.

Other learning activities

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

1.

Use the Lego Mindstorm robot with confidence

2.

Demonstrate understanding of good practices for supporting reflection on learning and for engaging in reflective practice

3.

Explain ways of using robots as cognitive tools for engaging in mathematical and scientific thinking in educational settings

4.

Individually plan, create, organise and publish an information-rich learning task for the mathematics or science curriculum using the Lego Mindstorm robot.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:

The key topics and concepts of the unit include: 1. Constructionism and Situated Learning Theories 2. Computational thinking 3. Reflection and reflective practice 4. Robots as cognitive tools for learning mathematical or science concepts

Other notes:

Students need to bring a device to take videos/photos of the robots and reflections completed by the primary school students.

Successful completion of EDN351 Teaching Mathematics in Early Childhood and Primary or EDN442 Teaching Science in Early Childhood and Primary is advised.